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...diverted to food programs like WIC, hunger would be vastly diminished and infant mortality rates lowered. As things stand, however, the Pentagon is going crazy and the children are going hungry--and dying. As President Eisenhower aptly noted in 1953: "Every gun that is made, every warship launched, every rocket fired signifies in the final sense a theft from those who hunger and are not fed, those who are cold and are not clothed...
...intense was the fire that five members of one squad left their bunkers voluntarily, scampered up two flights of stairs and a metal ladder, to join their firepower to that of five comrades who were already in the rooftop fighting position. That act of gallantry cost them dearly. Three rocket-propelled grenades burst on the sandbags around the position without causing significant damage. But at about 10 p.m., a single 120-mm mortar round crashed through the roof, blowing up the bunker with the ten Marines inside. Rescuers arrived to find a ghastly scene, the ruined bunker a swamp...
...controllers were afraid that the difficulty, whatever it was, would spread through the system and bring down all the ship's computers. Without a computer, even a John Young probably would not have been able to take Columbia safely out of orbit because of the complex sequence of rocket firings needed to control the craft's fiery plunge through the atmosphere...
...considerably more sophisticated. The 18-ft.-long missile is carried 18 miles aloft by an F-15 fighter and fired directly toward a satellite; its foot-long nose cone, after homing in by means of eight miniature infrared sensors, does not explode but, propelled by dozens of tiny rocket thrusters, crashes into the enemy satellite at 30,000 m.p.h. "With the F-15 strap-on," says a Pentagon official, "we could clean up the sky in 24 hours." By contrast, each Soviet space bomb, launched by a rocket, could require 24 hours to prepare and move into orbit...
Despite the tensions, compounded most recently by a one-month delay in the flight because of a faulty booster-rocket nozzle, Spacelab remains an instructive example of international cooperation in a difficult area of technology. It also may be a prelude to more ambitious undertakings. Planners are already talking of giving Spacelab an array of solar panels so that it can generate its own electricity from sunlight. It would thus be able to float freely in space between shuttle missions. Initially, the unmoored laboratory would be unoccupied, acting simply as a remote-controlled observatory for scientists on earth. Eventually, more...